War Claims Act Amendments of 1969: Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2669 ... [and] H.R. 4204 ... March 5, 1969U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - 67 pages |
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87th Congress amend section American Legion American prisoners Armed Forces August 12 August 21 award made pursuant B'nai B'rith benefit captured Chairman churches and charities civilian American citizens claimants Claims Act claims fund Claims Settlement Commission Committee on Interstate compensation CONGRESS THE LIBRARY damage awards ECKHARDT enactment enemy FERENCZ Foreign Claims Settlement Friedel full payment Geneva Convention German GOLEMBIESKI HARVEY held as prisoners hostile force humanitarian ICRC individual interest International Committee Interstate and Foreign Korean Conflict large corporations LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS loss MCGUIRE million Mission Moss nonprofit organizations North Viet-Nam North Vietnamese paid in full payment in full priority prisoners of war proposed legislation Pueblo received Red Cross repatriation Representatives section 213 small business concerns South statement subcommittee subsection SUTTON THOMPSON tion treatment of prisoners U.S. government unpaid balance Viet Cong Vietnam conflict WATKINS World World War II
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Page 48 - Convention shall apply to all cases of declared war or of any other armed conflict which may arise between two or more of the High Contracting Parties, even if the state of war is not recognized by one of them.
Page 45 - The war claims fund shall consist of all sums covered into the Treasury pursuant to the provisions of section 39 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended.
Page 46 - Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1949; the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949; "the Conventions...
Page 8 - ... to make payments on account of awards certified by the Commission pursuant to this title as follows and in the following order of priority : "(1) Payment in full of the principal amount of awards made pursuant to section 203 (d).
Page 8 - Commission pursuant to this title as follows and in the following order of priority: (1) Payment in full of awards made pursuant to section 202(d) (1) and (2) and thereafter of any award made pursuant to section 202 (a) to any claimant certified to the Commission by the Small Business Administration as having been, on the date of loss, damage, or destruction, a small business concern within the meaning now set forth in the Small Business Act, as amended.
Page 5 - Asia in order to avoid capture or internment by any such hostile force, except (i) a person who voluntarily, knowingly, and without duress, gave aid to or collaborated with or in any manner served any such hostile force, or (ii) a regularly appointed, enrolled, enlisted, or inducted member of the Armed Forces of the United States.
Page 52 - No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind.
Page 50 - The present Convention shall be applied with the cooperation and under the scrutiny of the Protecting Powers whose duty it is to safeguard the interests of the Parties to the conflict.
Page 45 - civilian American citizen" means any person who, being then a citizen of the United States, was captured by the Imperial Japanese Government on or after December 7, 1941, at Midway, Guam, Wake Island, the Philippine Islands, or any Territory or possession of the United States attacked or invaded by such government or while in transit to or from any such place, or who went into hiding at any such place in order to avoid capture or internment by such government...
Page 4 - American citizens" means any person who, being then a citizen of the United States, was captured in Korea on or after June 25, 1950, by any hostile force with which the Armed Forces of the United States were actually engaged in armed conflict subsequent to such date and prior to...